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Nungesser to cross Louisiana looking for ways to boost tourism this week View Comments Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser is launching Louisiana's National Travel and Tourism week by celebrating the first marker on the Louisiana Civil Rights Trail. The ceremony unveiling the marker at Dooky Chase's Restaurant in New Orleans was held Monday afternoon. The Louisiana Civil Rights Trail has been a three-year Office of Tourism project. This week, Nungesser plans to travel the state this week to highlight successes and get more ideas about how to bring more visitors to Louisiana and keep residents' dollars ...

Dooky Chase’s Is First Stop on Louisiana Civil Rights Trail NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans restaurant Dooky Chase’s served as a safe meeting space for civil rights strategy sessions. Now it's the site of the first marker to go up on the Louisiana Civil Rights Trail. A 6-foot-tall steel silhouette of a figure carrying a protest sign was unveiled Monday outside the restaurant. It's the first of what will eventually be 15 markers on the Trail. They're being installed by the Louisiana Office of Tourism to honor the struggle for equal rights by Black Louisianans. Activist and restaurateu...

Activist and restaurateur Leah Chase was called the “Queen of Creole Cuisine." She died in 2019. Author: Associated Press, Stacey Plaisance Published: 5:05 AM CDT May 4, 2021 Updated: 5:05 AM CDT May 4, 2021 NEW ORLEANS — The New Orleans restaurant Dooky Chase’s served as a safe meeting space for civil rights strategy sessions. Now it's the site of the first marker to go up on the Louisiana Civil Rights Trail.  A 6-foot-tall steel silhouette of a figure carrying a protest sign was unveiled Monday outside the restaurant. It's the first of ...

Markers honor locations vital to Louisiana civil rights STACEY PLAISANCE, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 11 1of11FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015 file photo, Leah Chase speaks during an interview at her family's restaurant, Dooky Chase's, in New Orleans. The restaurant, which served as a safe meeting space for civil rights activists to strategize, is the site of the first marker to go up on the Louisiana Civil Rights Trail on Monday, May 3, 2021. Chase died in 2019 but her family still owns and operates the restaurant, whose walls are graced by an extensive collecti...

Markers honour locations vital to Louisiana civil rights by Stacey Plaisance, The Associated Press Posted May 3, 2021 3:06 pm EDT Last Updated May 3, 2021 at 3:14 pm EDT FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2015 file photo, Leah Chase speaks during an interview at her family's restaurant, Dooky Chase's, in New Orleans. The restaurant, which served as a safe meeting space for civil rights activists to strategize, is the site of the first marker to go up on the Louisiana Civil Rights Trail on Monday, May 3, 2021. Chase died in 2019 but her family still owns and operates the restaurant, whose wall...